I thought it might be nice to have a thread for newly-composed Atari 2600 tunes -- composed, that is, by me and by anyone else who might want to participate. Part of the idea is to put more music at the disposal of homebrew authors, so that if someone needs a tune for their game, they can look here first and see if anything's a good fit. If not, hey, at least it's better than having 'em sit moribund on one's hard drive.

My effort of the day was cued by my girlfriend's suggestion to write something "Nintendo-style, with hearts and flowers and cutesy stuff". Not necessarily my forte, but I gave it a shot:

It's just a quickie job, so the "solo" gets a little weedy at times. It's not all that full of hearts and flowers etc., but I can imagine it working for a light-hearted, Bump-'n-Jump-style driving game -- perhaps using both channels for the title screen, and just one channel (bass + drums) for gameplay.

Thanks, and definitely -- just let me know which one when you're ready, and I'll give you the source code! I'd also prefer to give priority to projects that are going to end up on carts, since that's more useful to me from a professional standpoint. (Saying "I've contributed music to a commercially released game" has more cachet than "I've written music that ended up on a game that never got finished.")

underwater_delay4k.bas5.04KB92 downloadsunderwater_delay4k.bas.bin4KB138 downloadsBoth of these were done simply in the spirit of experimenting to see whether I could get four levels of realistic-sounding delay, and whether I could convincingly fit in other parts "around the edges". The drums, especially, could conceivably be far more elaborate.